Each device which is connected to the web has a specific identifier referred to as IP (Internet Protocol) address. This includes personal computers, web servers, smartphones, switches, and so on. The pool of addresses, that was introduced initially, is already distributed, hence the so-called IPv4 IP addresses are slowly being replaced with IPv6 addresses. Every domain name which opens a website comes with an IP record, which is the address of the server where it's hosted. Using the IPv4 system, the record is called A and it comprises of 4 sets of numbers from 1 to 255 split up using a dot, while within the IPv6 system it's called AAAA and it is made up of 8 groups of hexadecimal numbers i.e. this type of records use digits from 0 to 9 and letters from A to F. An illustration of an AAAA record is 2010:0c48:43d3:2142:1012:8c3a:2475:2435 and this format supports a significantly larger amount of IPs in comparison with the IPv4 format.

AAAA Records in Shared Website Hosting

If you would like to set up a new AAAA record for any domain name or subdomain hosted inside your shared website hosting account, it won't take you more than a couple of basic steps to do that. Our in-house built Hepsia CP is quite intuitive to use and it'll allow you to create or change every single record without difficulty. After you sign in and visit the DNS Records section, where you'll discover all present records for your domains and subdomains, you'll just have to click on the "New" button, select AAAA from a small drop-down menu in the pop-up which will show up, type or paste the needed IPv6 address and save the modification - it is as basic as that. The new record shall be fully functioning within no more than one hour and the hostname you have created it for shall start opening whatever content you have with the other provider. When required, you'll also be able to change the TTL (Time To Live) value, which signifies the time in seconds that the new record will be functioning after you eventually change it to something different or you simply remove it.

AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Setting up a new AAAA record for a domain or a subdomain hosted inside a semi-dedicated server from our company includes only a few really easy steps, which you'll be able to find in the Help section of your Hepsia web hosting CP as well. You'll need to select the hostname for which the new record will be created from a drop-down menu in which you will find all your domain names and subdomains. Setting up the new AAAA record is as basic as selecting the one that you need and entering the IPv6 address for it. This is achieved with no more than several clicks, so you can quickly forward any hostname to a different company by using an AAAA record and use it with whatever service they supply. It's going to take seconds for the new record to be working and only around an hour for it to propagate around the globe, so you will be done in no time. The other company could also ask you to set some TTL value for the AAAA record, that's different from the default one - 3600 seconds. This feature determines how long it will take for any new value which you set for your record to take effect while the old value is still active.